Excellent depiction of He-Who-Barely-Appears-In-Person-In-The-Books-Named-After-Him. There, something to match those swords of his! Your Luthien is Gorgeous! I'm only at chapter 3 of Quenta Silmarillion though.

Two small objections: Sauron lost his fair bodily ..form in the drowning of Numenor, and afterwards was only a spirit of evil, still with all of his evil, but deprived of a body. Secondly, the drowning of Numenor takes place many thousands of years after the loss of the silmarils, which happened in the First Age.(The Silmarillion) The Fall of Numenor is close to the end of the Second Age.(the Akallabeth)

All of your paintings are excellent! There is however a slight mistake, at the Númenor drowning, Sauron could not possibly be wearing the ring, since he left the ring in Middle Earth. This is deep lore so not really important. Great work!

This is true and wrong lol, it is indeed said in the Silmarillion that after returning to Mordor Sauron took up his ring again, but in a letter he says Sauron actually had the ring in Numenor and used it to corrupt its people. My pic is wrong for another reason though; when Numenor was drowned, Sauron was on his seat in the temple, laughing at what was going to happen to Ar Pharazon and his army, and apparenly taken by surprise by the wave lol.

I..I cannot put into words how much I love the Numenor scene. The look of pure "OH S-" on Sauron's face is epic, and the people bowing and begging around him is brilliant. Everything else is exceptional, but that one scene stood out above the pack-it's legendary.

I think my favorite among these is the one in the lower right corner. Ever since my dad first told me the myth of Atlantis, I've always been fascinated with the concept of lands swallowed by the sea; there's something incredibly primordial and fundamental about it - and to imagine what's going on in the mind of even someone as powerful as Sauron in that moment, when the world literally collapses. Sheeet.

This spectrum of Sauron's forms is so epic, sheer bliss to behold <3 It's generally real fun how different people see Sauron differently - how Phobs' Sauron is on the effeminate side, yours just the right levels of manly while our version is super manly XDDD The most fun part is that he can be all that, being a shapeshifter Maia and all! <3333 I'm so happy you're contributing to the Silmarillion fandom, you make the world more beautiful, thank you! <333

I'll copy/paste what someone wanted to answer you (they missed the "reply" button); "No the ring was with sauron at the fall of numenor after his death his spirit was strong enough to take the ring back to mordor but he was never able to take another form outside of the dark lord form"

Actually Sauron used the ring to bend most of Numenor people to his will.